Moonlighter

Moonlighter is a merchant simulator game, where you're also the hero.
I liked the gameplay loop between dungeons and selling things in the store.
Cute graphics, great soundtrack, nice combat, satisfying game loop
just use controller

I say it's a good game hurt by repetition. The base idea is there, but it is a little too grindy without offering enough variety to make it worth it. I think the game does reward skill, which is a plus. But it feels like a 5-6 hour game padded out to 14 hours. It's a hesitant recommendation, mainly because I think it's definitely worth it on sale

Moonlighter is a Spanish Indie game.
Respect to the studio, Moonlighter can now join fellow games from Spain like "Blasphemous" and "GRIS".
The pixel art is beautiful and the music is great.
The story is nice and surprisingly non-fantasy, very nice.
Crawl through dungeon rooms like "Binding of Isaac" and dodge easy mechanics.
Difference is that you move and attack slower but that is intended, I believe. In order to sell that you are no hero or warrior but a wannabe merchant MOONLIGHTING as a fantasy adventurer.
Enemies are damage sponges and upgrading your gear is vital, but is very costly so you grind loot and sell it in an economics mini-game.
The game is tedious but if you have patience and tolerance, won't be an issue.
Once the Bank is figured out, you can make millions easily, but the cooldown gets in the way.
Can be circumvented if you sleep through days. This has no repercussions anyway.
The Mimic companion is the BEST, you get a free safe chest following you around in dungeons for that extra loot space. (Get him early on!)
The DLC adds a new dungeon but is also as tedious as the main game. I see how that is not for everyone.
Overall, a decent little indie game that I played with controller while doing something else like work or watching movies.
Not my favorite, but a good time.

Decent combat difficulty. The town and shop management linked to the story are the more interesting elements for me.

At the time of writing this, there are approx 32% of people who played this game who have gotten the achievement just for beating the 2nd boss. Which makes me sad! This game is awesome! The art style is charming and the songs are catchy! I absolutely recommend this game and plan on playing it all the way through! Great job, game devs!

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☑ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
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☐ 10

Despite this game's negative reviews and a color scheme heavily centered around teal, I decided to give it a shot, and I can undeniably say it was absolutely worth it. I enjoyed the shop-keeping, dungeon battles, and boss fights all while never feeling I'd entered tedious or grindy territory. I wanted to play a hack and slash roguelite with Zelda-like elements, a pixel aesthetic reminiscent of Pokemon, and good music, and that's exactly what I got. While I did feel that there were some balancing issues between the difficulty settings and mini-bosses and bosses, it wasn't enough to become distracting and take away my enjoyment.
I feel like a lot of the negativity around this game possibly stems from overinflated expectations, such as wanting a granular shop management system, in-depth npc interaction, a super advanced weapons upgrade system, or the worst of all— wanting to get 100% achievements. And while I haven't been with this game since its Kickstarter beginnings (where they possibly may have promised these things), such expectations for an indie studio (putting out what I believe is their first game) are completely ridiculous. Maybe Digital Sun will deliver on these things for Moonlighter 2, but what they did for Moonlighter 1 didn't leave me unsatisfied, even if I did wish for a little bit more. As for the 100% everything thing, well, it's not my cup of tea, but isn't getting 100% in and of itself grindy and tedious?
One thing that I don't think others have touched on is replayability, and for that I'm not sure. I haven't played the NG+, not because of lack of time, but because of feeling that I've already gotten everything that I wanted out of this game. And with Moonlighter 2 just around the corner, I'd rather give myself a break before sinking into that.
I got this game on sale for $2.99, which is a total steal. Had I paid full price, I still would have enjoyed it, and possibly so can you so long as you don't expect too much from it.